Chapel Hill data sets on the Positioning of Political Parties

* The Chapel Hill 2002 expert survey on party positioning on European integration covers 171 parties in 23 of the current 27 EU member states (not Luxembourg, Estonia, Malta, Cyprus). Principal investigators are Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Marco Steenbergen and Milada Vachudova. Earlier surveys were conducted by Leonard Ray (1984-1996) and by Gary Marks and Marco Steenbergen (1999). These surveys have been possible thanks to research grants from the European Union Center for Excellence, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. In the Summer and Fall of 2007, the 2002 team, strengthened by Ryan Bakker, Erica Edwards, Catherine de Vries, Anna Brigevich and Jan Rovny, conducted a new, extended survey, which is currently being prepared for public release. Target date is September 1, 2008. The first papers introducing these data will be presented at a small conference at the Free University of Amsterdam in June 2008.

From left to right: Front row: Erica, Anna, Liesbet, Gary.
Back row: Marco, Jan, and Milada. Ryan and Catherine were out.

To facilitate merging the 2002 dataset with the combined Ray/Marks/Steenbergen dataset party id and variable names are made consistent across datasets for identical questions (codebook). Where questions are not identical different variable names are used. This will be extended to the 2006 dataset. Datasets are SPSS files. Please right-click the file, select 'save target/file as,' and then download the file to your hard drive.


2002 SURVEY
Chapel Hill 2002 codebook
a) questionnaire for enlargement countries
b) questionnaire for EU-15 countries
Chapel Hill dataset
PRIOR CHAPEL HILL EXPERT SURVEYS (RAY AND MARKS/ STEENBERGEN combined)Marks/ Steenbergen/ Ray 84-99 codebook
Marks/ Steenbergen/ Ray Dataset

PS. Reference for the 2002 dataset: Marks, Gary, Liesbet Hooghe, Moira Nelson, Erica Edwards. 2006. “Party Competition and European Integration in East and West: Different Structure, Same Causality,” Comparative Political Studies, 39 (2), 155-75. Reference for the 1999 dataset: Marco Steenbergen and Gary Marks (2007). “Evaluating Expert Judgments”, European Journal of Political Research, 46(3): 347–366. Reference for the 84-96 dataset: Leonard Ray (1999). Measuring party orientations toward European integration: Results from an expert survey. European Journal of Political Research, 36(2): 283–306

Papers by the team using the 2002 dataset:
Marks, Gary, Liesbet Hooghe, Moira Nelson, Erica Edwards. 2006. “Party Competition and European Integration in East and West: Different Structure, Same Causality,” Comparative Political Studies 39 (2), 155-75.

Vachudova, Milada, and Liesbet Hooghe. 2006. "Postcommunist Politics in a Magnetic Field: How Transition and EU Accession Structure Party Competition on European Integration," submitted for publication.

Whitefield, Stephen, Vachudova, Milada Anna, Steenbergen, Marco, Rohrschneider, Robert, Loveless, Matthew, Marks, Gary, Hooghe, Liesbet. 2007. "Do Expert Surveys Produce Consistent Estimates of Party Stances on European Integration: Comparing expert surveys in the difficult case of Central and Eastern Europe." Electoral Studies 26: 50-61.

Other papers/publications by project participants using Chapel Hill survey datasets (alphabetical):

De Vries , Catherine, and Erica Edwards. 2005. "Playing the Right Tune: Examining Cueing Effects of Rightwing Euroskeptic Parties on Public Opinion regarding European Integration," Forthcoming in Party Politics.

Hooghe, Liesbet, Gary Marks, and Carole Wilson. 2002. "Does Left/Right Structure Party Positions on European Integration?" Comparative Political Studies 35: 8 (2002), 965-989.

Marks, Gary. 2007. "Triangulation and the Square Root Law." Introduction to the special issue on "Estimating Error in Measures of Party Positioning. Expert, Manifesto and Survey Data Compared," Electoral Studies 26: 1-10.

Marks, Gary, Liesbet Hooghe, Marco Steenbergen and Ryan Bakker. 2007. “Crossvalidating Data on Party Positioning on European Integration: A Comparison of Manifesto and Expert Data,” Electoral Studies 26: 23-38.

Steenbergen, Marco and Gary Marks. 2007. Evaluating Expert Surveys. European Journal of Political Research, 46: 347-366.

Steenbergen, Marco, Erica Edwards, and Catherine de Vries. 2007. "Who is Cueing Whom? Elite-Mass Linkages and the Future of European Integration," European Union Politics 8 (1): 13-35.

See also several chapters in: Gary Marks and Marco Steenbergen eds. 2004. European Integration and Political Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (introduction)